Bookings for international air travel fell 20 percent below 2019 levels in the three weeks following Hamas’s attack on Israel, according to travel data service ForwardKeys.
Tag: Middle East
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TOP TREND 2023, MIDDLE EAST MELTDOWN: MIDEAST WAR SENDS ISRAELI BUSINESSES INTO FINANCIAL CRISIS
The Israel-Hamas war has had catastrophic impacts on Israel’s $488-billion economy, with 350,000 military reservists—about 8 percent of the country’s workforce and a large share of the retail customer base—called into service.
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THE SHIFT IN FOCUS FROM UKRAINE TO THE MIDDLE EAST RAISES THE CHANCES OF WORLD WAR
The neoconservative/Netanyahu agenda of reopening the Middle East wars in the interest of Greater Israel has shoved Ukraine off the screen.
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LEAKED ISRAELI INTEL: NEW “SETTLEMENT”, PUSH PALESTINIANS FROM OUT OF GAZA
A leaked Israeli document indicated that Israeli leadership is considering moving all 2 million Palestinians from Gaza and into Egypt’s Sinai peninsula—as Israel played down the document as merely “initial thoughts” on the matter.
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AVOIDING ARMAGEDDON
The U.S. must consider encouraging a ceasefire before stumbling into another complicated large-scale conflict.
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MIDDLE EAST NATIONS SAY HAMAS STRIKES ON ISRAEL WERE PROVOKED
Following the Hamas strike on Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Qatar blamed Israel for the weekend’s major military operation that the West blamed solely on “terrorists/militants.”
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MIDDLE EAST MELTDOWN: ISRAEL KEEPS RAMPING UP WAR IN OCCUPIED TERRITORY
Israel further inflamed tensions with Palestinians last week when its troops destroyed the home of a Palestinian who is accused of killing an Israeli soldier in a drive-by shooting in 2022.